Communication between two running scripts

Question

I want to share a variable between two already running scripts. Or even spit string from one script to another.

script_1.py:

sensor_status = "Nobody"
while 1:
 sensor_status = arduino.get_sensor_status()
 sleep(5)

script_2.py:

sensor_status = # realtime value from script_1
while 1:
 if sensor_status == "Nobody":
 pass
 else:
 alarm()

• Sociopath: I think multithreading might work here
• Klaus D.: You should add a sleep() to script 2 or it will run at 100% CPU.
• Louis Etienne: Then can you use, as @Sociopath suggested, the ` multithreading` module and use a pipe or a queue ?
• RootTwo: Is the communication one-way or two-way? What kind of computer are the scripts running on? You could use the multiprocessing library. The docs have producer/consumer examples. You could also use something like MQTT.
• Louis Etienne: Take a look at this article: Introduction to Multiprocessing in Python